Hearts in the Wind is the Blog for Radiant Nursing - celebrating The Radiance Technique®. We cover an eclectic range of topics integrating TRT® into our lives. There's something for everyone.

This blog covers an eclectic range of topics for information, fun, and all the ups and downs of life. For students who have studied with me The First and/or The Second Degrees of The Radiance Technique® – there are suggestions for integrating TRT® into daily living. There's something for everyone.

Stones Are Burning

In Silence

Be still.Listen to the stones of the wall.Be silent, they try to speak your

name.Listento the living walls.

Who are you?Whoare you? Whosesilence are you?

Who (be quiet)are you (as these stonesare quiet). Do notthink of what you arestill less ofwhat you may one day be.

Ratherbe what you are (but who?)be the unthinkable oneyou do not know.

O be still, whileyou are still alive,and all things live around you

speaking (I do not hear)to your own being,speaking by the unknownthat is in you and in themselves.

I will try, like themto be my own silence:and this is difficult. The wholeworld is secretly on fire. The stonesburn, even the stones they burn me.How can a man be still orlisten to all things burning?How can he dare to sit with themwhen all their silence is on fire?

Thomas Merton had quite the wide-ranging life from agnostic to priest. His background covered a lot of physical ground as well from France to New York, to England, Rome and Thailand.

This poem evokes an inner fire that burns within all that is. Everything that comes into existence springs forth from an inner fire of God or the whole of existence.

Burning Stones On Fire

The whole world is secretly on fire...

Merton asks how a man can be still and listen to all things burning.

We are numbed to the point of deafness by the never-ending noise of this planet.

The man-made cacophony created by every type of machinery known-to-man is out of balance with nature and our natural rhythms. We keep slipping away from anything that is natural, all the while insisting it is "normal."